Genealogy in the Papers

Just for fun, I thought I would search the term “genealogy” at Trove. There were 7, 897 matches, so I narrowed the search down to papers that serviced the Western District. What I found was a mix of humorous pieces, hints and more.

That is just a small selection of what could be found about genealogy in the early papers of the Western District. Try it for yourself and see what you find from the localities you research. I also searched “genealogist” and had 863 matches, so I will leave you with one of the results from that search from the Western Argus of Kalgoorlie:

This was an intriguing post Merron! It was interesting that people were interested in doing their ancestry even 100 years ago. The “instructions” were interesting too: a mix of what we know to be true -follow back from our parents. But their warning that people at the grassroots level wouldn’t be in the records was pessimistic. Some of the heraldry etc reminded me of the “tree slurpers” of today’s internet genealogy.